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by dotdi 2065 days ago
It's really nice to see that the Nim ecosystem is gaining more and more traction. A good web framework is indeed quite an important step towards making a language/ecosystem more appealing to a more general audience.

I've yet to encounter a small enough project with low risk where I could get away with trying something completely new, but I'm looking forward to trying Nim in the (hopefully very near) future.

One negative thing that stood out to me was that commit messages are sometimes really bad, like "break" or "let me try". I'm not trying to bash the author, but I feel it's somewhat unprofessional.

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Considering he's offerring his work up for free, it seems very nitpicky to me
"Unprofessional" is a tad harsh for commit messages in a personal project but the "they're doing it for free" sentiment that gets expressed in almost every HN thread about open source projects isn't helping anyone either.

Most personal projects of this scale are labors of love and I suspect most people wouldn't mind nitpicks given in good faith if it means exposing the project to a wider audience. Though I also suspect they will be triaged towards the bottom of the pile :)